On May 23, 9:35*am, "Anne Burgess"
wrote:
... not exactly exercising this newsgroup atm, but for those
of you
in
roughly the 'northern half' of the British Isles, a potential
*highly
significant* storm for Monday
*I was somewhat surprised that no-one (as far as I could see)
from Scotland was talking about this.
Martin.

Too busy getting prepared for it, perhaps?

I was on the Isle of Lewis and planning to get the ferry back to
the mainland on Monday or Tuesday. On seeing the amber warnings
and reading the forecast I rebooked on the Sunday sailing
(breaking the Sabbath, tut, tut) and came home last night. If I
have to watch lashing rain and howling gales I can do so more
usefully at home than in a Hebridean guest house.

So far it looks fairly windy here in Fochabers but nothing
unusual. The strongest winds seem to be expected further east
and further west but not here.

Anne

I was looking to track this on the MAWS network, looking at the gusts,
but things appear to have changed.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/.../maws_pic.html

There is still a lot of data, but you used to be able to see gust
speeds and have a nice location map to click around. The MetO address
no longer exists, so I suspect this has disappeared. Can anyone
confirm, or link to the gust data from the MAWS network?